A district-level Samajwadi Party leader was chased and shot dead by three unknown assailants in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

Singh ditched his vehicle and took off on foot behind a row of houses, but was soon surrounded by the assailants, who fired several rounds at him and killed him on the spot(Shutterstock/Representative image)

A district-level Samajwadi Party leader was chased and shot dead by three unknown assailants in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

At around 3pm, when 30-year-old Gyan Singh alias Bechan Singh, was returning home from a market on his two-wheeler, three unknown men started chasing him on a black Pulsar motorcycle with a blank number plate.

Singh tried to speed away but they continued to chase him for a kilometre and fired at him in front of former Samajwadi Party district president Ram Shakal Yadav’s house.

Following which, Singh ditched his vehicle and took off on foot behind a row of houses, but was soon surrounded by the assailants, who fired several rounds at him and killed him on the spot.

The assailants also fired at a woman who tried to raise an alarm but missed their target.

Later they fled the scene after firing several warning shots to terrorise locals.